I would like to talk about an experience I had over spring
break. I was staying with my girlfriend
in Gloucester, VA, which isn’t very far from the school but it certainly is
different. The area is filled with large
plots of land and farms, huge expanses of trees divided by sparse roads some of
which are unpaved. It is a truly
relaxing place in some parts I must admit.
This particular journey took place at a local lake where there is a long
hiking path that takes you around it, it is similar to the Noland in a lot of
ways actually. We, my girlfriend and I,
ventured into the woods together and I came across the most peculiar spot where
I had a feeling as though something was important about this place. I cannot explain why or how I got this
feeling just that it was unmistakably there.
Then I began to think about this class and Lane’s third axiom about
treding on place and I wondered if something important had happened in this
area. It was after all historical, not
being far from many of the early settlements of the Americas by the
English. As I recount it the experience
seems rather ridiculous, how could a place so common appearing have so much
power, but there it is just the same. I
could feel something, it made my adrenaline rush and my hair stood up on its
end. The whole experience made me come
to a conclusion which is that perhaps place doesn’t need to be particularly
stunning or intimidating to be sacred or to contain intrinsic power.
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